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Saturday, March 10, 2012

The
presence of the narco in the security institutions and PGR, neither Calderon or
Attorney General Marisela Morales can hide more than just infiltration. The
aforementioned structures are at the disposal of the capos of the cartels. As
shown in a judicial file in which is described with detail-names and amounts of
bribes, how federal, local police commanders and the army not only protect
narcos, but they work for them as escorts, lookouts, informants, payers and
even sicarios.
The arrest of four members of the criminal organization "Los Zetas"
has revealed that operations are not only performed, but overlapped by the
Mexican Army, the Attorney General's Office (PGR), the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (AFI) and the Federal Police (PF), as well as state and municipal
police forces, both in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.

Five years into Calderon's war on drugs, which accumulated more than 50
thousand dead and a similar number of missing, the federal security forces did
not escape the corruption that the president repeatedly attributed to police
and local institutions.

According to the preliminary investigation PGR/SIEDO/UEIDCS/041/2012, made just
last February 8, soldiers of the Sixth Military Zone killed citizens who were
denouncing criminals and their bodies disappeared, in addition they would hide
from PGR, shipments of drugs.

The investigation adds that so did the PF agents, who also identified,
confronted adversaries of "Los Zetas", they placed checkpoints where
they guarded shipments. Also, they implemented the payroll of the Federal
Support Forces (FFA) that sends the government temporarily to fight the narco.

Marisela Morales

Meanwhile, other members of the PGR and AFI, with bribes at all levels, were
responsible for fining the members of "Los Zetas" with very weak
penalties, freeing those who were detained, and reporting to the Zeta leaders
all types of denunciations, including anonymous complaints.

In the case of the corporations of Nuevo Leon, "Los Zetas" presented
the payment of the narconómina to either state or municipal police and also had
a link with the state government to maintain their structure safely.

(below Cicero Salazar in office followed by his arrest)

In Coahuila, Lieutenant Colonel Manuel de Jesús Cicero Salazar, who served as
head of the Operational State Police and protected "Los Zetas" was
recommended by the Secretary of Defense, Guillermo Galván Galván.

The Corruption in the States Attorney General (FGE), which accounts for the
previous Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Public Security
Coahuila) was known for years by Felipe Calderon, whose government did not act
until the second half of February.

The morning of the 15th of that month, on the premises of the FGE feds arrested
the commander ministerial Sergio Tobias Salas Tobogán, and the state police
Julio César Ruiz Esquivel, "Chicho", who were also responsible for
executions and disaappearing people.

Hours later, Claudia González López,the sub-delegate of the PGR fell in
Saltillo, and was taken to Mexico City. All three, like Cicero, are accused of
collaborating with "Los Zetas" and Thursday, 23 were issued formal
arrests.

On Thursday 16, Attorney General Marisela Morales said: "We are
confronting all the corruption with a frontal attack that can be found at all
levels in our own dependence. We are the first to set an example and we have
actions without precedent in this fight seeing we're combating against our own
federal agents, prosecutors against, anyone at any level (if they are corrupt).
"

Morales said that there are more involved, but clarified they did not belong to
this corporation. However, the same record that allowed the entry of the
elements mentioned above also involves other members of the PGR.

As for military corruption, during the commemoration of Army Day on Sunday
February 19, Calderon praised the soldiers but admitted: "It is true that
there have been rare cases of some bad elements that deviate from the values
that ennoble the institute armed with his uniform and thus betray the trust
placed in them."

These "exceptional cases" occurred in two of the greatest recorded
entities with the most violence: Coahuila and Chihuahua, which make up the
Military Region XI.

The cases documented so far are the disappearances and executions allegedly
ordered by General Manuel de Jesus Moreno Aviña, head of the garrison in
Ojinaga.

Manuela de Jesus Moreno Avina

And his involvement in executions of 39 Infantry Battalion, of Nuevo Casas
Grandes, and now in the case of 69 Infantry Battalion, based in Saltillo.

Corrupting Power

The incriminating statements of the soldiers and officers arrested in March
2011 revealed how the corrupting power of "Los Zetas" escalated
throughout the structure of the Sixth Military Zone, based in Saltillo, until
the general Juan Manuel Vallejo Malibran, who served as chief of staff in the
area and then was sent to Guanajuato.

So, on Wednesday February 8, PGR opened a preliminary investigation 041/2012,
accumulating evidence and proof of inquiries 197/2011 and 101/2011, the latter
made after the arrest on March 12, 2011, of Pedro Lara Toga, “El Guacho”, and
Gerardo Hernández Sánchez,“El Gerry”, identified as leaders "Los
Zetas".

The two them are now protected witnesses of PGR. Toga Lara was given the
confidential code name “Escorpión” and a Hernández Sánchez got “Sagitario”. In
the above investigation, there is mentioned of another protected witness known
as "Sérpico" and the statements of the three that came off to PGR and
was deemed "accurate and reliable", and has been useful for the
capture of other members of "Los Zetas."

In his statement on May 4, 2011, “Sagitario" incriminated (everything and
their narcosueldos), the lieutenants Javier Rodriguez Aburto, Sócrates Humberto
López González, and Julián Castilla Flores, who "earned" 50,000
pesos, and Marcos Augusto Pérez Cisneros, who got only 30,000 because he was
"very lazy".

Another sergeant, Sergio Treviño Ríos, known by "Los Zetas" with code
name "Tauro", was who allegedly involved all members of 69 Infantry
Battalion with the criminal organization and was responsible for paying the
"narconómina" (narco payroll).

The arrested soldiers accused each other, and several crimes surfaced,
including the murder of a lieutenant by the last name was Hoyos.

In the case of Lieutenant Soto Núñez, when he was arrested they secured 300,000
pesos in cash and weapons. According to the statements of Sergeant Treviño Rios
settled in the file, Soto belonged to Montiel Rumbo team, battalion commander.

"Together with other lieutenants and soldiers, of whom I do not know the
name, (Montiel Rumbo) was responsible for kidnapping and disappearing people
opposed to the organization of" Los Zetas", ignoring these activities
and what he did to kidnapped people, and these in Saltillo, Monclova and
Torreon," said Trevino.

He added: "I know "El Rumbo" and his people. About three months
ago (January 2011), They kidnapped three people who were teachers, engineers,
people with some kind of profession, in the city of Monclova, because they put
the Zetas on the spot."

On Tuesday 21, the newspaper Reforma published other revelations of Treviño,
settled in the military criminal case 279/2011, which affirms that General
Vallejo Malibran is linked to "Los Zetas", he wouldn't inform the PGR
about confiscated drugs, and he was carrying portable Kenwood radio given to
him by the narco.

Regarding Lt. Hoyos, who was killed, Treviño said Hoyos guarded arms, money and
cell phones, but he complained to General Vallejo to report fewer items and
less amounts of money to the PGR, for which the general ordered to kill him.

"Narcosueldazos" - (Super Narcosalaries)

The statements of "Scorpio", "Sagitario" and
"Serpico" coincided with those of Luis Jesús Sarabia Ramon, Pepito
Sarabia, arrested on January 11th in the limits of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.

Luis Jesús Sarabia Ramón "Pepito"

Before the prosecutor, Sarabia narrated his criminal career, which began in
2005 as manager of the "little shops", (narcomenudo) in Nuevo Laredo.
Sarabia, is a compadre of Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, "L-40", who
upon hiring him, assigned him the code "L-44".

Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, "L-40

In late 2007 he joined "The operation", as the escort of
"L-40" and his brother Omar Trevino Morales (L-42) while hiding in
the cities of Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso and Matamoros, when the
"Gulf Cartel", then still allied to "Los Zetas", were
fighting for control of Nuevo Laredo against the now imprisoned Édgar Valdez
Villareal "La Barbie" and Arturo Leyva, "El Barbas" was
murdered in Cuernavaca.

In 2007 Sarabia was sent to Piedras Negras with "El L-42" to act as
"tranca", communications manager of the organization in the city. In
2008, "El L-40" made him the chief of the plaza Monclova and in 2009,
Heriberto Lazcano sent him to Saltillo as plaza boss, but by then , part of
pools, and investing money which gave him a profit of about $ 100,000 dollars a
month. According to the witness, the code in "L" followed by a number
is assigned to those in charge of Nuevo Laredo.

In his statement, Sarabia confirmed corruption in the PGR and AFI. Also
"Serpico" settled inside the AFI in Coahuila, a commander got a
"narcosueldo" of 100,000 pesos a month, a second commander, 70
thousand pesos, and federal public ministries 30, 000 pesos. They were also
giving away expensive vehicles.

To identify the members of AFI, "Los Zetas" used the key "three
letters". Besides having police commanders, under their control, they also
paid to sub-delegate of the PGR in Saltillo, Claudia Gonzalez Lopez.

Sarabia accounts the day that "El Gerry" (the witness "Sagitario"),
arrived at the bar "Carlos' n Charlie's," the former used for
meetings, with sub-delegate, who was given 100,000 pesos a month, and a federal
prosecution agent Blanca Isabel Dueñas Beltrán (with payments of 25,000 pesos)
and Gladis Feliciana Leyva Quintero (50,000). In total there were five
prosecutors and the sub-delegated.

In February 2010, the sub-delegate and MP González Leyva López Quintero, met
Sarabia and "El Gerry" at the Chevrolet agency in Saltillo to buy a
car for an official of the PGR. She left there on board a blue pickup double
cab. The vehicles that were given to the AFI, and sometimes the
"narconómina" were delivered to the back of the building of
sub-delegation of the PGR in Saltillo, in the colony Topochico.

And against the assertion of the Attorney General Marisela Morales that more
staff is not involved in the PGR, witnesses and the accused revealed that they
paid 50,000 pesos to AFI agent Jose Guadalupe Ballesteros Huescas, whom they
knew since 2009.

Therefore it pointed to David Corral Huerta and Enrique Gonzalez Nava, the
latter responsible for the state AFI, based in Torreon and who received 600,000
pesos a month to distribute among the officers assigned to Coahuila. According
to Sarabia, and the heads of his criminal group, they roamed around the state
without being bothered.

In addition, elements of the PGR and AFI liberated goods, vehicles and weapons
secured in operations. They removed bad charges from detained Zetas, reported
all formal or anonymous denunciations of its members, and shared information
submitted or requested by the Office of Special Investigations into Organized
Crime (SIENDO) of the PGR.

In January 2011 they withheld payment because the FFA stopped "El
Risas" in Saltillo, whom since May 2010 was the 'cook" in charge of
burning so the bodies were unidentifiable. "El L-40" ordered to
release "El Risas", who along with Sarabia and other
"Zetas" were his personal bodyguards in the years of war against Los
Beltran Leyva for the plaza Nuevo Laredo.

It was not possible to release "El Risas" because the FFA had already
given notice to the office in Mexico City. The sub-delegated Gonzalez Lopez had
to personally explain what happened and release the withheld bribery.

Captain Valbuena

The four "Zeta" detainees signaled, Captain Jorge Luis Valbuena
Flores, as one of their operators, and an officer of PF in Coahuila and Nuevo
Leon before. According to "Serpico," the captain was in charge of the
PF in Nuevo León when he met him and began to deliver payroll through the
"Commander Lino" at the same level of control as "Serpico"
and was later brought down by the army on 25 January 2011 in Monterrey.

Escorpión said he met Valbuena in 2008 and also in Nuevo Leon collected payroll
for Coahuila, where he was sent in 2010 as a commander of the PF.

The same witness said that Valbuena introduced "Los Zetas" the
commander Enrique Gonzalez Nava, AFI, , Azulejo, the commander of the FFA who
arrived in Saltillo in January 2011, and the regional intelligence chief. At
that meeting the Zetas commanders gave Azulejo 2 million pesos and agreed to
the amount that they would give the officers while in the two states.

According to the statement made on the record, Valbuena facilitated the
corruption of local prosecutors in Arteaga, Coahuila, to free the detained
criminals, but also led direct action for "Los Zetas". Indicated that
Valbuena led the search for "Pepito" Sarabia in Nuevo Leon, where he
escaped, pretending to be dead after a shootout against the military in 2010.

The captain of the PF armed group was instructed to place the filters to
monitor the PF, at the entrance to Saltillo coming from Monterrey , and in the
toll booth of the Highway 57 Saltillo, Mexico and near the free road to Torreon
in the area of General Cepeda, all in order to identify rival commandos or
their cargoes, and ensure free transit..

Valbuena provided information on operations that were planned in Mexico City,
the PF and other corporations ("was very well connected in the Federal
District"). According to the witness, the officer gave indications on
vehicles, flights, times,number of people, and the objective of federal operations
in the area.

The captain also "solved the problems that the "Compania" came
to have on the roads."

On that occasion, when I paid him in early January 2011, 70,000 pesos for him,
and for the troops were given over 1 million pesos, as the whole corporation is
committed to "Los Zetas," says "Escorpion".

Valbuena added that he delivered between 800,000 and 1 million pesos in
envelopes labeled with the names of the beneficiaries. The witness
"Sagitario" attributed the theft of five heavily armored,
"blinded" vehicles on the free highway Saltillo-Torreon to the
captain, in April 2009, after which he disappeared drivers and delivered
vehicles to whom was identified as "Commander Chabelo".

The same source said that the captain of the PF was escorting shipments of
drugs, weapons and armor to the cities of Miguel Aleman, Reynosa and Nuevo
Laredo, as well as trailers with "Chinese loads" (name given for
Fayuca) by the Zetas for foreign merchandise destined the Federal District.

According to the "Sagitario", the captain is also responsible for the
transport of contraband through Corporate Senda and for passing it to San Luis
Potosi by an independent supplier. Similarly, the federal command has been
involved in milking the Pemex pipeline, as well as for providing protection for
the extraction of gasoline in Hipolito, Coahuila. Valbuena owns gas stations in
Monterrey and he handed the now protected witness a three axle truck with gas
each month.

The Torres Charles

Humberto Torres Charles brother of former Coahuila State Attorney

Also learned through the witness information that in Nuevo Leon operated
"The Kid". He distributed the payroll to judicial, state and
municipal police, representatives from "Los Zetas" were present. One
of the individuals who received the bribe was the "Bachelor Muñoz",
linked with the state government.

In Coahuila, the pawn of "Los Zetas", was retired Lieutenant Colonel
Manuel de Jesús Cicero Salazar, "Viejo Loco". It was part of the so
called "Model Coahuila" and in mid-2008 he was appointed head of
Public Security in Ramos Arizpe, Saltillo.

The "Model Coahuila" was a program coordinated by journalist Isabel
Arvide, which called for the designation of 11 generals, five colonels, nine
major and other officers who numbered nearly 200, all retired, who were given
all headquarters municipal public safety.

Arvide described it in Torreon, February 17, 2010: "All the military
leaders, in this model, are commissioned, after passing tests of trust by the
Secretary of National Defense. Most have been generational peers of General
Galvan served under him or have coincided with his command in various
commissions."

The state police, prisons and the headquarters of the municipalities were
filled with soldiers who operated freely and enjoyed armored vehicles,
high-powered weapons, travel, insurance and bonuses never transparent. His
"moral leader" was the then commander of Military Region General
Mario González Marco Antonio Barrera, and now inspector general of the
Department of Defense Comptroller (SEDENA).

Arvide ended their working relationship with the government of Coahuila in May
2010 after accusing the then state prosecutor, Jesús Torres Charles, of
colluding with the underworld. Some of the soldiers that he took to Coahuila
later reappeared in other entities such as Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo. This
was the case of Cicero, who was appointed Secretary of Public Safety, but left
office after a street scandal in Cancun.

Cicero became known in Coahuila in the wake of a shooting that was against the
escort of "L-40". Local media nicknamed him "El Rambo" and
he lived on the premises of the municipal police because he had death threats
against him. However, the statements of the protected witnesses shows that "Pepito
Sarabia" gave him 500 thousand pesos a month (200 thousand of these for
another person whose name is not mentioned), plus they gave him a Cherokee
truck.

(Below Emanuel Almaguer)

Another involved was Emanuel Almaguer, Municipal Police Commander of Saltillo,
who paid the payroll and received support for expenses of the patrols. He was
executed on 5 December with his son of 12 years.

Witnesses and Sarabia agreed on Humberto Torres Charles (brother of former
state attorney general), nicknamed "Glenda", was a deputy in the
nineties, under the command of Humberto Medina attorney Ainsley, father of
Governor Nuevo Leon, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz.

Emanuel Almaguer and his young son gunned down in Saltillo

Humberto Torres was legal director of the State Health Department. Today he is
a fugitive. Respondents contend that they gave him very high bribes (the first
for $100 000) and gave him a BMW and a Mustang.

On Monday 20 journalist Isabel Arvide told the newspaper Vanguardia of Saltillo
that the corruption of former prosecutor Jesus Torres Charles was addressed by
Felipe Calderon personally to Humberto Moreira , who ignored him and kept Torres
at the office since 2010.

Former Coahuila Governor and PRI President Humberto Moreira

Despite this history and the confessions and accusations made by the detainees,
who are almost a year in the power of the PGR, this office has not made any
investigation against the former prosecutor Charles Torres. And it has not
solved any cases of forced disappearance of any persons, although the president
Felipe Calderon pledged since mid-2011 to accelerate research and respond to
families seeking justice.

Blood Stories

The warring narcotrafficking cartels are always in the middle of more
violent confrontations between bullets, blood and death. Comandante Pepito, a
recent zeta apprehended.

In his declaration before the PGR, gave details, among
others, the death of a boss at the horse races, and the assassination of Jaime
Zapata, an ICE agent from the United States last February.

Agent Jaime Zapata and scene of his murder

The declaration of Luis Jesús Sarabia Ramón, Pepito Sarabia or Comadante
Pepito, explained some of the facts of violence of the last year in the
northern region of the country, because of being close to Miguel Ángel Treviño
Morales, L-40, his compadre, also because of his ascension in the criminal
organization, Los Zetas, in which he became an associate.

Detained this past 11th of January, in a bloodless operation according to the
investigation, Sarabia was indicted by Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, L-40, his
compadre, in which is stated that up until March 2011 he was region manager of
Los Zetas, with influence in San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, Jalisco y Coahuila.

All through out his declaration, Sarabia tells about the operations in which he
directly participated in or knew about since he was part of the so called
"Compañía", such operation became news of international
repercussions.

One of the cases is the attack of two Immigration Custom Enforcement, ICE (ICE)
for the English Initials agents on Feb 15 2011.

That day the agent Jaime Zapata and Víctor Ávila were shot. On the federal
highway 57 in San Luis Potosi Jaime Zapata died.

On the 23rd February of that year 2011, the investigation of the members of the
zetas led to the detention of Julián Zapata Espinoza, El Piolín,, who according
to the secretary of national defense (Sedena) he was the commander of Zetas in
the Zone.

Ricardo Treviño, spokesman Sedena assured on Feb 23 the attack was due to
confusion because the type of vehicle that the ICE agent's were driving, the
sicarios assumed were members of the rival cartel.

Feb 28, 2011 the government presented Sergio Mora Cortés, El Toto, detained by
the marines. It was attributed to El Piolín. At an unusually face pace, the
zetas were falling.

During the year nobody mentioned that the ICE agents were armed until last
Wednesday, the 15th of Feb. when the Washington Post made known other details
of the attack, for example, the truck was bullet proof and it would have been
able to withstand the shot of AK 47's and the detonation of grenades, but the
vehicle had a technical fault when placing it in "park" the locks of
the door automatically opened.

The ICE agent couldn't respond to the attack, they were overpowered by weapons.

(Heriberto Lazcano Leader of Los Zetas)

With Sarabia's declaration, his information complements what already had been
stated by the investigation of PGR/SIEDO/UEIDCS/051/2011, which was started
with the detention of El Toto y El Piolín, since it explains the tension after
what happened following the murder of Zapata murder.

Sarabia suspected now of different federal crimes explained that El Toto was
the accountant of the palza and had been in charge that week when the ice
agents were attacked.

The investigation 051/2011 establishes that Sarabia asked El Toto to explain
what happened and ordered to reunite with El Piolín.

With his squad, he was to
either kill or deliver El Toto to the authorities. darle piso (kill someone)
montarllo (hand over to authorities.)

the latter is what happened. The navy and Sedena were able to get detainees
rapidly and not because of the intelligence agencies investigation as presumed
by fillip Calderon to whom even Barack Obama congratulated him because of the
detentions.

Sarabia was in Monclova when he was call upon by el Laszco for him to be in charge
of organizing a portent against the construction of a federal jail that was
going on in Monclova as stated in the investiga 041/2012

The matter became a crisis. The night of February 15, 2011 hours after agent's
Zapata's murder, L-40, and el Lazca called Sarabia asking for an explication
since he was the principal commander of that region. The first one to arrive
was L-40

From Sarabia's declaration: "my compadre 40 asks me what happened in San
Luis Potosi , "that who had fucked the ice agents?", referring to
them as the blondes of ice, because I was the one in charge but I told him I
didn't know about that mes-didn't really know the details since El Toto was in
charge.

El Violin and another secario only referred to as El Tarta has been identified
by mexican authorities as the executioners of the attack.

"Toto told me he had sent Piolín and El Tarta to steal trucks on the highway San Luis to Mexico, and it seems that it didn't
work out because of the people from the other side (Blondes). After that my compadre
40 called Lazca so they could check what they were going to do with me.

Once
Lazcano arrives, we explain to him how things are and Lazcano explains that he
has sent for me in Monclova because of the mantas for which my compadre 40 is
pleased with what was said about them and they allow me to keep on working with
the mantas"

Days later in the beginning of March, L-40 changes the assignment and then
Sarabia opts to get out of the Zetas. L-40 left me a message with El Abuelo
(chief of the plaza in Monclova) to go to the the war (they call it that way
"confronting" the gulf cartel" in the Tamaulipas border), and
don't return to San Luis Potosi and to put myself under the orders of El Gallo
y La Papa (both executed and burned on the Laredo-Monterrey highway) but I
didn't obey and at the end of March 2011 I stopped being part of the Zetas
organization.

Races in Fresnillo

Some months before his detention Sarabia started to have problems inside the
criminal operation according to his declaration.

On Dec 15, 2010, there were races and parties among Los Zetas. They got
together at a race track near to then Fresnillo Jail. The brothers Miguel Ángel
y Omar Treviño, L-40 y L-42 respectively, Iván Velásquez Caballero, El Talibán
Comandante 50; El Diamante, operator of Zacatecas; and another guy known as El
Gordo who is in charge of the organizations' horses and La Ardilla, Zacatecas
plaza boss.

El Talibán asks Sarabia if he had done done something to his compadre L-40
because he was so very angry that he wanted to have Sarabia turned in.
"The only thing I told him was he was mad because he had seen me with a
woman from Veracruz who was a table dancer but it seemed L-40 had liked
her." explained Sarabia

There weren't any complaints because suddenly they received reports about the
presence of the Military in the area and the party was over.

The army finished the races for the day, and the Zetas managed to escape but
confronted the military all along the state highway Jerez-Fresnillo. Only a
pistolero died. L-40, L-42, El Lazca and La Ardilla flew to Monclova in private
airplanes and Sarabia fled by land and hid in Saltillo

The official information said only a group of armed men had confronted a
military convoy which repelled them, leaving a dead sicario.

Villarín y Cañada Park

The taste for horse races of Heriberto Lazcano y Miguel Ángel Treviño has been
extensively referred to mainly because on different occasions they have been
attacked or surrounded by the army while being spectators in this activity.

One of the first mentions of this hobby occurred in El Villarin, Veracruz when
a disagreement between the gamblers ended in a shooting. That time Heriberto
Lazcano it was speculated could have been the one was killed, but in reality it
was Efraín Teodoro Torres, Comandante 14 o Z-14.

Villarín is a ranch with a narrow barely paved road. Upon driving through you
can frequently see pigs and chickens before entering the small and poor house.
However in that place is a contractable horse track with the capacity for
10,000 people and among its amenity are professional gambling professionals

The pot was 9,000,0000 pesos but at the end of the race the gamblers were not
happy with the result . That is what started the shooting where Z-14 died.

Two years later, 2009 in Futurity, Cañada Park, in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila they
shot Javier Urióstegui Román, El Gato Urióstegui, a professional gambler from
Morelos

Two days later, on a farm of alleged Allende, Nuevo León, during the wake, a
squad group of comandos shot the mourners, where his brother Jose Carmelo died
along with other relatives and friends of the gambler from Teloloapan,
Guerrero, were injured.

While fleeing from Canada Park a convoy led by the Manuel de Jesús Cícero
Salazar, then director of the public security. He confronted with the
delinquents in his vehicle which was equipped with a video camera and it
recorded the confrontation. During the shooting you can hear the desperate
petitions for help through the radio to other corporations. The help never arrived.

According to the declarations of Sarabia it was El Gato Urióstegui who killed
Z-14 or at least that is what he thought."I met this person Cicero August
30 2009 since there was a shooting between Cicero's Bodyguard/chauffeur against
members of the company, among the presence my squad and I were there."

It was on the Los Pinos, Highway since that day there was a horse race to which
El Comandante 40 attended because he knew in that place there was going to be a
gambler who a year before (in reality 2 years before) had killed commandant 14
in the horse races that were held in Villarín, Veracruz.

Sarabia was stationed in the surroundings of a convent located around the
highway to Los González in Saltillo when he received the order to come closer
to Cañada Park but in transit he realized there were patrol cars waiting for
the convoy of L-40 that they had already executed El Gato Urióstegui and was
returning. Sarabia was in charge of the custody of the convoy of L40, confronting
the police, he ended up wounded.

Two Faced Officials

When they heard on the news that the former prosecutor Jesus Torres Charles and
sub-delegate Claudia Gonzalez of the PGR in the state, were linked to Los
Zetas, the first by kinship, the second for providing protection, 'when
hundreds of families across the country their blood froze.

They understood that at the same time contributing new data to the officials to
look for their missing relatives were essentially giving information to the
criminals themselves. They understood also why, despite their efforts, the
government has not found any of the persons reported missing in the state in
these times of war against drugs.

"I feel frustrated with impunity, by omission, for the mess and the
collusion of all local judicial authorities of the state of Coahuila, not just
those already apprehended, but that they innumerable obstacles to families who
did investigations, we investigate with superhuman efforts for being be
ordinary citizens. And surely all that we presented to the prosecutor threw it
away, "says outraged Mrs. Maria Guadalupe Fernandez Martinez.

In Saltillo photos of some of the 1600 "
Disappeared"

She is the mother of the engineer Jorge Robledo Antonio Fernandez, originated
from DF disappeared in Monclova January 25, 2009. He was 32 and working at ICA
Fluor Daniels in the Phoenix Project of Altos Hornos de Mexico. Since then the
couple Robledo-Fernandez turned in search of their son and traveled every week
to Coahuila to submit evidence to the prosecutor.

They gave him a video of suspected bar, windows sealed, which shares parking
with the auto parts store where her son disappeared. Calls for a year, were
made from the two cell phones of her son and even the location of the two ATMs
in the bank withdrawals which were made with his cards. But he did nothing, not
even include the data in the preliminary 002/2009.

They always ask us what new things we had researched and often we told
them:" You have to investigate, that's your job, not ours " she said
to proceso," this woman who part of the organization United for Our
Forces Missing in Coahuila (Fuundec), which has documented 230 cases in the
state, 2007 to January 2011.

Preliminary calculations of the state government show that in the state over
1,600 have gone missing during the presidency of Felipe Calderón.

"We made superhuman efforts to get information: we did an analysis of
outgoing calls from the cell of my son and we would take them every 10 days to
show they were active, they were reloaded, and they had numbers used regularly
as friends on several phones; we had bank card statements and we told them the
week that showed steadily to withdraw money.

We were hopeful that they would
put an undercover agent to wait, because Monclova is a small town. But Saturday
came and the miserable bastards, who had taken out of 3 000 pesos each
withdrawl until the cleaned the last 100 pesos., "he says.

The disgust, disappointment, anger, and the sensation of being scammed is
shared by families that like hers , is dedicated to gather clues that will help
the authorities to locate their loved ones. Not knowing they had enemies at
home.

The director of Human Rights Center Fray Juan de Larios, of the Diocese of
Saltillo, Blanca Martinez, also adviser Fuundec now today (Fuundem because it
encompasses all of Mexico 'missing) reports that, in the recent news, families
are bewildered and outraged.
"we understand now why all these years not one missing person was found
despite the fact that people have posted information that has been for
nothing."

Growing disenchantment

The Fuundem scheduled several regional assemblies urgently in order to take a
position on that case. However, it is clear that will they may be asked to
investigate the former Governor Humberto Moreira who kept Jesus Torres Charles
in office despite his negligence.

Jesus Torres Charles

Brothers Humberto and Ruben Moreira, former and current Coahuila Governors

"The first loss was five years ago and to date there is nothing. There is
a clear responsibility, at least by default and most likely not to look for
deliberation, and that means institutional responsibilities and status.

No
doubt there is direct responsibility of senior officials, such as the
sub-delegated. So we will ask for an investigation into the former prosecutor,
all officials involved in the alleged investigations of the missing and
obviously, the former governor Moreira," said Blanca Martinez.

Throughout 2011, the families set tables with state and federal officials who
participated with the sub-delegate Claudia Gonzalez. "(She heard) all
cases, giving her opinion, agreeing with families to find their missing,
saying, with an unethical management to-emotional mothers angle that she
understood them as a woman."

(Below:Bert Resigns Amid resigns as PRI president over the Coahuila debt scandal many say to save the election for PRI December 2011)

Following the announcement 2 weeks ago week of the linking two of the two
former officials with "Los Zetas", mistrust between families takes
hold.

"Since the first time we sat down with Humberto Moreira, in September
2010, one of the demands of the families was the resignation of Charles Torres
for his acts of omission providing justice. The then governor ignored it and
when he left the governorship to leave the job of president of the PRI, he
still told us: "Relax, here is the prosecutor, he'll keep looking,"
said Moreira. Despite the poor performance as state attorney Charles Torres.

Humberto Moreira's successor, his brother Reuben, who appointed him head of the
Office of Legal Affairs, where he watched the new laws being approved. During
this time defining the crime of enforced disappearance that does not meet the
guidelines of the Organization of the United Nations.

"The definition is tricky, to go off on tangents. we're going backwards,
is very ambiguous, the punishment to those directly responsible of the crime as
well as the responsibility of the state in order to provide justice", he
says.

Disenchantment is not new. As time goes on, families on pilgrimage from one
government institution to another to request the search for their loved ones,
they have come to realize the complicity between authorities and criminals.
However, up until now made explicit.

"For a long time, we spent and we trusted the word of those people whom
tell the news, they are part of the criminals.. To us God lit up the April 27,
2009 when we realized that the prosecutor wasn't doing anything.

We found that
the new data that we had, phone sheets, photographs, had not been included in
the preliminary investigation, but we had put everything in his hands. In
addition he paralyzed us, telling us that we should not be searching for him
because our son was in danger," adds the mother of Jorge Antonio.

The engineer's family
decided to go to the PGR, until now the institution had not advanced in the
case of his son. Robledo-Fernandez family and other members of Fuundec had
talks with Deputy Interior Secretary, Felipe Zamora, who planned the creation
of a state attorney dedicated to finding missing persons.

But it all stopped
when he died in the crash with Secretary Francisco Blake Mora."We want to
investigate these people who are now identified, and now it may be the thread of the skein so painful for us," says Mrs. Maria
Guadalupe.

Related information:

View the "Coahuila Gate" Video (see paper trail of businesses and real estate owned by the Moreira family in the US...)

Humberto Moreira with Wife Vanessa Guerrero, far left and far right Minu and Jaime Guerrero, Vanessa's parents. Jaime is rumored to be an important ally to the Los Zetas. In 2011 after a shootout between Zetas and Marina at a Saltillo safehouse word was that Jaime was at the house and was killed, a rumor that took weeks to discount. The Guerreros are from Piedras Negras and was the site of the lavish wedding of Vanessa and Humbeto.

64 comments:

Calderon has been an utter failure at many things, but he has done the most of any recent Mexican president to root out corruption involving government employees, which is endemic throughout Mexico.

I hate to think that Calderon has a political agenda beyond finding public corruption, but this appears to be the case in Michoacan, where dozens of mayors, all belonging to the PRD or PRI, were arrested at once, when in the end almost none of them were charges with an crimes whatsoever.

Thank you the excellent job, Buela Chivis. This is a long story, and your original material on the Moreira brothers is particularly enlightening.

Mexico can never truly leave behind her 3rd world status as long as corruption is so blatant and widespread, and as long as 2/3 of the people are left in utter poverty, while billionaires relax in guarded villas.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:33 PM, <USA dont have them because mexican goverment are very careful aboutthat, usa know that mexico is a super corrupt country, and presidentcalderon wants to keep in secret many internal things, but i have manydocuments, many my friend.For example:

i have the file of Genaro Garcia Luna, the chief of mexican federalpolice, he is a fucking corrupt monster, this file is sealed andsigned by the director os mexican CIA , CISEN

The solution still remains the same as it should have been at the outset of the narco-war. The mandate should & has to be set. The gallows for the corrupted & traitorous public servants, and the complete annihilation of terrorist cartel parasites.

It's really that simple if Mexico wants to become the world leading civilized society we all know it cam be.

The generations of criminals now forming into Mexican family units is a cancer on humanity.

Thanks so much for noticing my added material. I have an arsenal of Coahuila/Moreira corruption infomation and I bring out the Coahuila-gate video whenever possible!..It's my state but it represents what has premeated Mx society and gov..and the reader is correct this is the target if they want to change Mx.

and for sure THANK YOU mi amiga HAVANA, I did not want her to tackle this translation but so happy she did! Proceso is hands down the best journalists in Mx IMO....Paz, Chivis

Great article. Thanks for posting. It could have been about one paragraph that says "Yep, everyone is corrupt. Nothing new here to see." And also, it would be easier to follow if everyone didn't give themselves nicknames. El this and El that. The most fascinating thing to me is Mexico's wealthy who are mixed up with this. Not the politicians, military and law enforcement. Everyone knows they are sold to the highest bidder. But I see these super wealthy Mexican nationals that we deal with here on a social basis, and I wonder where the money came from. Especially if I've known them since we were kids and now their wife drives a new Benz and he's as dumb as a box of chorizos.

Thank you ARTURO RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA for writing this article and to Proceso for leaving political allegiances aside and originally publishing it.

Thank you Chivis for bringing this information here.

Thank you Borderland Beat for publishing this article.

I would like to see Proceso type of expose for the many other infected, affected areas of Mexico after other higher level cartel member captures. .

The article so clearly spells out just how severe corruption is in Mexico but what's more important to realize is that the information represents only the reveal and fallout from what? It is mostly from testimony of 3 high level Zetas entangling politicians in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. Two of the Zeta operatives were internally forced to be turned over for shooting an ICE agent. That exemplifies what can be achieved with external political power. Security infiltration is the method with which politicians/criminals use to operate with impunity. There are so many other other areas in Mexico with deep cartel infiltration. Sinaloa for example. And this is still just the tip of the iceberg. Mexico will have to start abstracting this level of information from all guilty politicians and cartel operatives using it to bring offenders to justice and to incarcerate them. But Mexican jail??? Mexico should bring in the death penalty for a 20 year, serious, clean up plan and fix their infrastructure. Otherwise, what a waste of a beautiful country. Get it together Mexico! What good are you doing?

I hope you put them to good use amigo! I won't ask "how" you obtained them but pray you use them to expose.

I am very frustrated at Calderon and agree with the first comment. and He should have initiated a federal investigation against Bert Moreira, not at the crime but him personally. Because he will COME BACK! I feel he made a deal with PRI to step down for the sake of regaining the presidency. Then there will be an investigation on state level of Bert and he will be cleared and the golden boy once again on the way to the presidency. Calderon should have conducted the investigation NOW before time runs out. Remember Bert owns most news media, radio and print in Coah. he manipulates all that is written about him and his bro.

If I can help contact me through BB, it is always confidential and anonymous...Paz, Chivis

I think I best clarify something that may be confusing to some readers. In the Proceso article it makes reference to Sarabia saying that a code was used of "L" in place of the "Z" in addressing certain members example:"L-40" was used in place of "Z-40" and so forth. this was from the testimony of Sarabia, and the author maintains the code to refer to Sarabia's testimnoy...

The chief of the Chinese mafia in Mexico is called "Wong Hyo Ryu" aka "Mr. Wong" is a millionaire super man, powerful and bloodthirsty they say, only say it's the real leader of Ye Gon, but has much more money than Ye Gon. Don Wong has Chinese blood and blood Korean, also controls the Korean mafia in Mexico, and ordered the assassination in more than 20 times in the Tepito neighborhood to gain territory. One of his prestanombres and was arrested for laundering zacatecas money was "Jie Chen Wei Huang." Mr. Wong speaks English, Spanish, Indonesian, Chinese, Korean, Mandarin and French. He is wanted by Interpol for drug trafficking since a lot of years is not an ordinary gangster, is a major triad leader, so Eastern gangs call, in and out of Mexico by the support of the secretary of finance and the PFP, as very often in a luxurious Chinese food restaurant called Excellency, is in the Lomas de Chapultepec and his favorite dish is Peking duck pekin, and chef makes it special. Don Wong is not legally in Mexico. Pseudoephedrine comes from a province of China called Yiwu, Zhejiang and goes directly to the airport of Mexico city. A very important member of this organization is Mrs. An Lam, who disfrasar is responsible for the drug legally, the commander Lara Lugo Hermenegildo aka El Chino, the ssp df, is responsible for pseudoephedrine guarding the airport at Don Wong holds Mexico City, the contact is Mr. Luho, father Hermenegildo Lugo. In addition, the bloodiest operators who run the drug business are:

Dear boss, this information is 100% positive, do not pay any attention to the C are liars and envious, here we will go very well at all. Me said they will ask if you reward your office or file for Don Wong, trafficked internationally for many years. How you feel the matter?

The Moreira brothers will only be removed by force and have to be executed if not they will never pay for their crimes. They have too much dirt on other politicians. People need to set up a bounty for their heads like they do in Africa. They are responsible for the murders and disappearance of many. We worry about other countries yet Mexico is our neighbor and we don't care. They sell us drugs and we sell them weapons. Addiction is a major problem for our country and it has now expanded to Mexico.

Idk el pri is the worst PRD was good but little by little falling into narcos,like.it.or not el pan is the best to govern. First it took on Narcos and.has capture ,killed and confiscated as well as done more then any other presidency in Mexico history. The deaths sadly happened not because the war on.cartels but because Mexico's gov and.its society let organize crime grow as well as corruptions and we Mexicans tend.not to.give a.fuck on what's happening as long.as it.doesn't happen.to us sadly but true. I believe felipe calderon is doing.a.good job and i believe el pan will keep going. To stop the war now is like telling.the Narcos you won. There is more that needs to be done by usa as well,we gotta acept the fact as Americans that our country also has alot of fault. The biggest drug barons usa. Usa is based on a narco economy, and this is easily demonstrated i can do it. But I've done it before yet people fail to acknowledge and constantly blame Mexico saying Mexico this that, if u read history u will see the bigger picture. Is a both country blame but as long as usa has the most addicts and money laundered as well as the contacts + is so weird that the zetas has special training in.the school of.the Americas then later on deserted gafes n became zetas. I find that so weird yet no authority has question why hasn't there been a deeper investigation about it. Why hasn't the usa apologize for fast n.furious ,when it demands a drone that fell in.iran lands while spying and they treating to use force to recover it . Its just pure bullshit of politics. If marijuana is legalize while coce and other drugs only de criminalize it will change alot . People only use drugs because its illegal ,its a way of feeling.rebellious towards the system. Who in their right mind wants meth or coce. Lets look back into prohibition. There is. Agenda for Mexico and its natural resources ,as Mexico has the potential to be a leading country world wide , but.us cant allow that ,why? They ran out of oil, have no production but spend spend n spend . Wages wars to maintain.its military complex making profits for corporations. And Americams day by day becoming poorer they don't realize but they are. America wake up because today's misery will be America of tomorrow . History love to repeat it self. Just like the great roman empire this empire will collapse due to its own magnitude.Ps:great article i just hope there was more smart comments.instead of.the usual stupid ignorant and arrogant comments people post.

I spent three hours on this report and am so glad I did. I learned Mexico is even worse than I thought which is very hard to believe. Is General Galvan corrupt because he has kept corrupt people in rotation, just has the pope is because he keeps little boy fondlers in the Catholic Church in rotation? Or is the General even worse than that? He seems close with Calderon? Or just publicity close? Anyon know?

Anyway, very good article. Really worth the time. My hats off to Borderland Beat and writer Chibis

Los zetas leaders learned from CDG neglect that allowed them to flourish and challenge CDG:Dispose or despose anyone who makes too much money or is too smart or is a liability!All zetas other than the leaders are stooges for the leadership! Until they learn the leaders lessons and kill them or turn them into the government!What goes around comes around! The end is near for the zeta leadership!

Around 2000 to 2003 there was a strong leftist movement in mexico, marching through every state in mexico demanding change. Now wmexixo has a right wing gvt and nrco death squads and no leftist movement. America is very happy!!!

It is going to get real interesting when PRI sweeps the elections. It could get real serious for all the outgoing PAN because the same shit will be coming out about them and their association with CDS. PAN and Calderon will be doing their dance in public then. The military in Mexico is hired guns for cartels and the politicians are their puppets. That is the bottom line and it is nothing new.

Can Mexico have a fair election? Is it possible? Then PRI should not win the next election because Mexicans can't be stupid enough to let PRI back into the power when they are the most (of any other reason) responsible for the cartels and the corruption.

The smartest Capo to live is Heriberto Lazcano him along with his zetas will control Mexico and the other cartels will either call it quits or unite with them or be killed by them remember the reason they are who they are today is thanks to the Beltran Leyva Cartel EL JEFE DE JEFES ARTURO BELTRAN LEYVA a man who is the brains and balls of the sinaloa cartel mayo and chapo dont even come close arturo kicked back and let the z DO THE DIRTY WORK and now Z relax and enjoy the $$$ and power and you know alot of people say why did ARTURO BELTRAN unite with the zetas and if you go back to Nuevo laredo when the sinaloa cartel tryed to take the CDG plaza and ARTURO knew his group would never defeat the Z when things whent sour with his people the Z were then people to have an alliance with ZZ will control all the criminal activity in MX IN 2012 PENANIETO Z-1 WILL BACK THE Z WHEN HE BECOMES PRESIDENT

Z wants to overthrow GOV.EITHER THAT NARCOMANTA IN MONTEREY WAS THE REAL DEAL OR NOT, IT HAS A STRONG POINT.. STRATEGIST Z-3 knows wat he has to do, unlike the OTHER 50% of greedy,drug-using,drug makerz in MEX. Look at Syria's president ASSAD, HE HAS POWER OVER HIS FORCES to ANNAHALATE

Pepito realized he was the next zeta stooge to be killed or turned in to the authorities, so he got smart and left!Zeta leaders are not going to make the same mistake CDG did and let subordinates become too powerful!

FYI I am a stickler for giving credit to forum. I link to their posts even if that is not the source of which I obtain an article if it is different than mine I always link to theirs.

In this case and in cases where I began the article with a photo I put the name of all credits including my own at bottom. Because it looks ill-placed at top. I did discuss it with Havana and left it up to her.

It may not look like it but I contributed hours of research over a two day period for the post. The photos and the video was from my efforts and the links and photo comments. This is a subject that is very personal to me.

We took on this project together and both agree credit of the author should be at top and our efforts at bottom....Paz, Chivis

I would love to write an article about the Chinese mafia in Mexico and Tepito, is there still violence there?...it is not widely known and I think would be very interesting to most folks...thanks for your very interesting comment....Paz, Chivis

Chivis really did a lot of work on this post. I am fine with the translating credit being at the bottom and linking it back to my forum post. That is what we agreed to and I'm satisfied with it. Chivis' version benefits from additional photos, videos and a whole section on Moreira's web of corruption. So, it is much more extensive than if she just posted pretty much directly from the forum as she does sometimes and credits us always upfront. The credits are really as it should be on this piece; the original author and the BB reporter at the top. If anything, Chivis, is always "fairest of them all". I appreciate your looking out for me and others on the forum. Saludos